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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27

PITTsBuRG, April 2G.-A fire broke out
at o'clock this morning in the grocery
store Of Willis Brothers. corner of La
cock and Corey streets, Allegheny City.
The upper part Of the building was oc-
cupied as residence by the Willis
family and several Of their employees.
With great difficulty the firemen rescued
seven of these persons IN "A partly suffo-
Gated condition. Two men fell or jumped
from the upper stories and received in
iuries probably fatal. Sophie Boles and
Fred Schulty were found. after the fire
extinguished, suffocssted in their beds IN
the fourth story. Six out 81 seven 81
the rescued were members Of the Wills
family. One outsider was badly hurt IN
endeavoring To break the fall Of one of
the men who fell from window
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27
Bishop Beekwith's wife Dead.

ATLANTA. Ga. April 25.-Mrs. Beck
with. wife of the Right Rev. j. W.
Bechwith. Bishop Of Georgia. idied in
this city this morning.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27

WASHINGTON. April a6.-The First Ma
tional Bank Of Statesville, n. c., has
been authorized to commence business.
Capital $4,000.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27

Z AAi@i@fHANNfI-- I-A- \ -b--l ftt-
Senatorial situation has been entirely
unchanged by any occurrences to-day
| At the Joint session - members were
| present and the vote was taken in list
less and discontented manner II was
| as follows:
BloNham --.. .---..-.-. -
Perry ----. ..... .-. --.- zl
Pd>CD. 90 -
Finley ... .... 10
GOO.irich .....-...- -.--- l..
Mallory .---- .-.----.-.-- .--------- 1890 =
The customary motion from the Re
publicans to- take second ballot was
without result. No new combines or
compromises are even talked about.
Most of the members belonging to the
visiting committees will 20 out of the
city during the latter part of the week,
on "A visiting tour To the penitentiary at
Live Oak. colleges at Lake City and
Gainesville. and the asylum at st. Angus
tine.
GETTING DOWN To BUSINESS.
Having disposed of the missing SEQ
tion and the newspaper discussion, the
Senate got down to business and did
some good. New bills were introduced
by Senator Cole for the relief of auc-
tioneers; Senator Bryan. regulating CON
veyances of real and personal property;
Senator Wall. to legalize the change of
gaupe of the South Florida Railways.
Senator Fowler's bill To restore the
rights of citizenship to all persons Olsen
franchised by conviction Of misdemean-
Ond reading and was ably discussed.
Considerable opposition was developed
and senator McKinne made a motion to
indefinitely postpone, the vote standing
IA To II. President Mabry decided its
fate i'll favor of the bill and il WAS post
poned for further discussion. until Satur-
day at IL O'Clock. The judiciary Com
n ittee reported large ennmber of bills fa-
vOrably.
BILLS REPORTED.
Among the most important was the
one for the protection If game, fish and
birds, regulating the manner of appeal
in Justices courts. to punish breaking or
entering railroad cars.
The bill Incorporating the PaIatka
Savings Bank and Trust Company. has
been informally passed over and Is pa
tiently awaiting resurrection.
THE BILL To PROTECT MECHANICS.
McMurray's bill. providing a lien of
ninety days upon all property for repairs
or work done upon it. being the act
asked for by the Knights of Labor. of
jacksonville, was the subject of much
discussion and proposed amendment. 1t
finally went through to the third read
ing without being seriously impaired.
The Committee on State Affairs re-
ported favorably the bill for the purpose
of purchasing a Governors Mansion in
Tallahassee. and appropriating about
$4,000.
Considerable other business was trans
acted of minor Importance.
IN THE HOUSE.
The bills of importance that were in
trOduced in the House are as follows:
BY Mr.. Latham, providing for the re
demption of all real estate sold in salts
faction of any judgment in any court
in the State; by Mr.. Hind. to change the
present boundary lines between Marion
and Putnam Counties, which extends
from the Ocklawaha River to Lake
George; by Mr.. Bielby, to incorporate
the University at DeLand. and several
bills of minor importance.
BOARDMAN.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27
M Observance at Jack >anNItIe

Si'.cieI 4" ute PdIdtLG Mars.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 26.-Me-
meorial Day was not observed in this
city to-day. but arrangements are
making for concerted action on the part
of Federal and Confederate veterans ON
May 80 To decorate the graves of the
Gray and the Blue together. III.
The ceremonies at Palatka viii be
found described elsewhere
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27
HARTINGToS REPLIES.
No Danger of War.

LONDON. April 26.-Tbe Foreign ofneo
has received advices from the British
Embassy in Berlin. saying that the Ger
man Government gives assurance tha'
the Schnaebeles incident ~ mol hkeiy ~
Lead 10 a prolonged difficulty.
PARIS, April 26.-A cabinet council
was held to-day to consider the Schnar
heIes affair. N. Flourens, Minister of
Foreian Affairs. read a long dispatch
from VI. Herbette. French Ambassador
AZ Berlin. describing am interview he
had with Count Herbert Bismarck, the
German Foreign Minister, In relation r..
the arrest Of NJ. Schnaebeles. In view ~
this interview the Cabinet telegraphed
fresh orders TO N. Herbettr.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27
No Change Of Importance in tire
Situation.
THE LEGISLATURE GETS IN A DAY or
SOLID WORK.
In no Hurn to Enfranchise Misdemeanan,s The
Bill to Protect Mechanics Passed
TO the Third Reading.

SpseiH To the Pttl,ttbu Mars.
TALLAHASSEE. FLA. April 26.-The
Senatorial situation has been entirely
unchanged by any occurrences to-day.
At the joint session - members were
present and the vote was taken in a list
as follows:
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27
NUMBER AZ.
A Frightful Disaster.

DULUTH, MIsS. April 26.-It is rumor.
ed that the tug, Minnie Lamont, engaged
in breaking ice on Vermilion Lake. with
pleasure party ON board, met with
disaster and 30 lives were lost No par.
ticulars nor verification have been re-
ceived.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27

LyscHBURG. Va April 25.-The noun
tains in this vicinity were covered with
snow this morning Weather cool
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27
CALHOUN ON CIvu. SERVICE.

Speaking of Mr.. Calhoun's report Feb
5. 1885. ON the extent of government
patronage he quoted the subject of his
eulogy as follows:
He said: so long as offices were con-
sidered as public trusts. To he conferred
on the honest. the faithful and capable,
for the common good. and not for the
benefit gain of the incumbent or his
party; and 81 long as it was the practice
of the Government To continue in office
those who faithfully performed their du-
ties, its patronage. in point of fact. was
limited to the mere power of nominating
to accidental vacancies or to newly Gre
ated offices, and could, of course eNer-
else but moderate influence either over
the body of the community, or of the Of
ticeholders themselves; and when the
practice was reversed. when offices. in
stead of being considered as public trusts
To be- conferred ON the deserving. We're
regarded as the spoils of victory, to he
services without respect to merit:
when it came tn be understood
that all who held office. held BY the ten
ure of partisan zeal and party service it
is easy tn see that the certain. direct and
inevitable tendency of such state of
things Is To convert the entire body of
thos. in office into corrupt and supple
Instruments of power. and to raise up a
host of hungry. greedy and subservient
partisans, ready for any service, how
| ever base and corrupt. Were premium
offered for the best means of extending
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27

to the utmost the power of patronage:
to destroy love of country: to encourage
vice and discourage virtue; and. in a
word, to prepare for the subversion of
liberty and the establishment of despot-
ism; no scheme more perfect could he
devised; and such must be the tendency
of the practice, with whatever intention
adopted. or to whatever extent pursued.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

THE Bell telephone has much trouble
to ring of troublesome inventors who
constantly hello for connection or 8
divide. Cushman is the last one at The
phone, and is likely to require attention
There is now an Investigation going on
in Chicago with closed doors, but it has
leaked out that the Bell Telephone Com.
pany made contract on May l, 1882,
with Cushman to pay him $50 per month
for three years to surrender to them all
papers pertaining to his invention, and to
hold his tongue, which he has observed.
II this is substantiated it will be strong
point in Cushman's favor, and after all he
is moderate in his demand. He does not
ask for patent, but only for the priv.
lege OF making and selling his own in
stTument.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

THE unsuccessful attempt made upon
the Cars life last Monday is construed
by some of the journals as war indica-
ton, the feeling being that he will feel
it necessary to devise some safety valve
for the mutinous spirit abroad in Russia.
He has in the past manifested SO stab
born resistance to any concession to the
peoples demands that there is little hope
of mis- yielding now, and as the only other
alternative he may plunge Europe into war
to save his own life. Any concession is
secuted, and the public press urge the
extreme views of autocracy, and deride
all modern improvements in administer
ing the government as unworthy of the
consideration of the Gar of all the Rus
sias. The present Gar might ponder the
lesson Of his fathers death, who deferred
an act of Hberality to his people until the
assassin's hand dealt fatal blow.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

d LESSON TOBE WE'LL LEARNED.
No matter what their ultimate fate, the
six anarchists who. are in the Chicago
Jail under sentence of death will have a
sure lease of life until next October, for
the Supreme court of Illinois will not
consider the briefs submitted by the state
and defense until the autumn term of the
court. Sentence Git the judgment is
aff1rmed) must be pronounced in open
court, and that cannot be done until the
second week in September, as the Su-
preme court now stands adjourned to
that month. The briefs submitted by
both sides are extraordinarily bulky. That
of the state closes with the following SEN
fences, which cannot fail to impress the
intelligent and thoughtful reader:
If, during the years preceding the Hayma
ket bomb throwing, the meetings at which
ditiOn and assassination were openly advO-
Gated had been dispersed the massacre at the
Haymarket never would have occurred No bet.
ter Illustration of the effects of fearless en-
forceme nt Of the law is seen than in the fact
shat as soon "a Johann Most had suffered the
penalty imposed UPON him by the English law
for his incendiary utterances, he left the soil
of England and planted himself upon the soil
of America, and that the officers of the law who
because of his teachings became martyrs for
the law, instead of being oflic rs OF the King
dom of Great Britain, were officers of the state
of Illinois.
There is a whole sermon in these
words. Perhaps it comes late, and it GER
tainly does so far as the case now under
consideration is concerned, but it may be
the moral will not be overlooked IN future
emergencies. The authorities of Chicago
are by no means blameless for the terrors
OF the Haymarket riot and massacre.
They had been warned, time and again,
of the fell spirit that was brewing right
under their eyes, and every day they
heard the threats of the socialists. In
the face Of all this they permitted the
meetings and demonstrations until the
red flag of the commune and the grim
black banner of the anarchists grew to be
familiar sights on the streets of Chicago,
They permitted the incendiary speeches
and publications to 90 on unmolested
until Parsons, Spies and their Tx grew
confident and audacious. The efforts at
came too late and the Hay
market massscer followed. The lesson
ought to be remembered by every COM
munity in the country where any outcrop-
pings of socialistic, communisttc spirit
are developed. A repressive policy, in
promptly and carried out in
fexlbly will prove the best panaCea, the |
ounce of prevention more valuable than
pound of cure. In country Ike this,
where every man Is equal before the law,
where every man has an equal showing at
achieving happiness and independence in
life, secure of the laws protection, there
should be no dallying, no condoning, no
trusting the snarChstic element. Deal |
with it promptly and sternly before, like
the viper of the fable, it is nourished to
life and strength to sting the breast that
warmed it.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

THE Quanah Advance says: "Harde
man county is in better condition to-day
than we have credit abroad for. There
are no people suffering from actual want
and the prospects for crop are promis-
Ing and if it rains between now and the
goth, there will be boom here that will
give US a lift in the pictures, and the
cheap homes for the poor will be matter
of the past. This will hardly be lamenta-
BILE, for there is room in the great west
for millions more"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23
Hatred OF Newspapers.
Austin State man.


Almost every day furnishes proof of 8
growing antipsthy toward newspapers,
similar to that against railroads and cor
porations generally. The feeling springs
from the infamous communism of the
Gay. II is sinking weed thet fl0urishes
only in a soil of ignorance. The ignor-
ant, the criminal, the vicious hate 8
newspaper on the same prime pie th&t the
psuper hates and deSpises a rich man, or
the commune, owning no property, hates
the corporation which has amassed
wealth.
The present Texas libel law is a miser-
able exponent of the dislike for the press
smong certain classes of people, certain
classes of legislators. In fact there are
men In this state who would gag the
newspapers of Texas worse than is done
IN Russia, did they no. fear that in de-
stroying the liberty of the press they
might endanger their own.
The communistic nature of the antipa-
thy is shown in the almost weekly filings
of damage suits against news
papers, sometimes claiming $4,000
repairs on 5 cent characters.
And, as in the case of the railroads, the
juries, when they get chance at news
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

there Is no danger of war between your
country and mine. So long SIS l live l
shall use all my efforts to maintain peace.
God will soon call me TO Himself. | do
not wish to leave my people heritage OF
blood. Germany shares my desire for
good relations with France" 1t will be
remembered, too, that Count de Lesseps,
who has just returned to France from
Berlin, received the same assurances
from the Emperor. De Lesseps was
SO enthusiastic over the old K9i-
ser's words that the radical anti
German press in Paris is berat-
ing De Lesseps. The ways Of Euro
pean potentates and diplomats are
beyond the understanding of the masses,
who stand afar of, out OF the glare Of
"the fierce light that beats upon a
THRONE" and there is simply no telling
how sincere, il sincere at all, are these
German utterances. 1t can only be hoped
that the words are not meaningless, and
that the INSCRIPTIONS ambition OF the
rulers will not bring woe and burdens
upon the millions of common people in
France and Germany, who will be the
chief sufferers in the event of war. II the
Kaiser speaks the truth his latter-day as
pirations are the most creditable of his
long life.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

psper-swayed by the same communistic
dea-seem prone to award heavy dam
ages, even where there is not a particle
of "msllce aforethOught." One class of
people heartily hate the newspaper It is
the evilidOer-the man whose life, chsrac-
ter and acts will not bear inspection. To
the criminslly inclined, to those VINO trans
gress social laws, the daily journal is an
abOminatiOn. This class, while hating, also
fear, the power over public opinion,
welded by the press, more than they do
the courts. An instance of this is the
petition in the British House CfCOmmnns,
gotten up yesterday for the suppression
of the publication of the details of divorce
suits. But the press is power that may
be annoyed and harrassed, but cannot.
like Banquo's ghost, be downed, at least
while manhood and freedom exist IN this
country.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

For column article in a nutshell COM
mend US to such as this from the Phila-
delphia Record: "The repeal of the law
imposing the present taxes on liquors and
tobacco would cause an annual loss to the
public treasury Qtesfore than 500, OO0,-
900. The repeal of the law imposing the
present duties on wool, hemp, fax, jute,
lumber and coal would lessen the public
revenues to the extent OF SIC, ZOO, 900; but
it would relieve the American people Of a
greater burden of taxation than would the
repeal of the whole internal reYenue sys-
TEN. The voluntary taxes on drink
and smoke go into the treasury to pay
for the expenditures of the government,
the interest on the national debt and the
pensions to soldiers. The compulsory
taxes on the above raw materials do not
go into the treasury, but are taken out Of
the pockets or producers and consumers,
and the industries and commerce of the
American people are crippled. Yet for
the sake of securely maintaining these
taxes on industry and labor some dema.
gogues propose to repeal the taxes on
whisky and tobacco"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23

A MAN in Santa Cruz endeavored to es-
tablish his wlfe's insanity on the ground
that she had weakness for eggs and for
oysters. The judge, after little intro
spection, decided her to be perfectly sound
on this point, which was ia accordance
with all his former ideas of sanity.
Judged by the rule this husband would
establish, wives would miss the treat
known as "peacemaker" which recreant
husbands are wont to bring to appease
any wrath which be nursing at home for
his devoted head.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23
MIR. Randall and "rhe Record"
Philadelphia Record.

| 1t transpires that Mr.. William M. Sin
ord, a paper devoted to the perpetuation
OF the internal revenue and the adoption
Of free trade policy, is the leader of the
attempt to legislate Mr.. Randall out of q
district. Mr.. Sineerly is a wealthy man
and has made q great deal of reputation
in his fight against coal rings and as the
owner Of the best COW il America The
+ whole scheme is plot originated by the
whisky men whom Randall has so often
baffl7d in Congress, and VINO see
in his public career the end of
their monopoly. It's conception, how
ever, is weak. The publiC are not fools,
nor can the progress of the protective
idea &c stayed by the decapitation of any
one or hundred men. There is nothing,
however, 10 fear in the conspiracy against
Randall. The ring will pour out its
money like water at Harrisburg and in
Phiiadelphia, and Mr.. Randall will be
elected as usual. But the efforts of these
whisky politicians to throttle public
opinion in an intelligent congressional
district only proves the desperate and
INSCRIPTIONS spirit of the crowd that
the country has to deal with Macon
Eei%grapa.
The above paragraph is printed as
specimen of the political information 8
protectiOnist journal in Georgia deals
out to its readers. l. is r sufficient an
swer to say that the Record does not de-
sire TO keep Mr.. Randall out of Congress-
Il recognizes all the good qualities of
that gentleman snd his service to the
country as al opponent of some unWise
schemes of expenditure. Moreover, the
Record recognizes the fact that Mr.. Ran
daIl cannot be kept out of Congress as
long as he faithfully sdheres TO the policy
OF the Republican party. But he should
go to Congress as the representative of
the parcy he supports. His presence
in that body as a Democrat has been hurt
full &nd disastrous to the Democratic par
ty. How anXi-us the R. publicans are
that he shall cODtis ue to pose IS a Demo-
crat while actirg as q Republican Is at
tested by the bill to appOrJon the Con-
greSS districts that is now under COnsid-
Grafton in the Pennsylvania Legislature,
which proposes TO gerrymander this city
to make him q district that would be over
II 900 short of the number OF inhabitants
needed for proper quota. His presence
in Congress would be worth twenty-five |
votes u the Republican minority. They |
cannot well do without him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23
Attention sheriffs.

Special to the Gazette
GREENvILLE, Tex, March %. - Does
sny sheriff in Texas or elsewhere want
one Charles Nethers? He is a Swede, five
feet eleven and a halt inches high,
We CHS 165 lbs, fair or red com-
pl-xjon, rcd hair, light brows, long eye
lssheS, light red mustsche, scar one inch
long over left eye, eyes clear blue. If
wanted telegraph NE. Had on when
arrested three six shooters, one dirk, full
set of burglars tools, skeleton keys, dies
and drills. W NJ. ARNOLD,
Deputy Sheriff
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23
PURE FOOD ASSURED.

For raising bread biscuit other food only the very
best and purest baking powder should be employed The
of the ordinary of tartar or of baking pow
der containing lime alum phosphaes deeterous
ingredients into the food the prejudice of the life and
health of the consumer
The ordinary baking powder contains either lime,
which, introduced into the system in free quantities.
serious disorders of the kidneys alum corrosive
poison orphesphates whichare coademnedby physicians
deeteous In their effect when taken under certain
physical conditions.
The abso1Hte purity of the Royal Baking Powder
makes it precautionary the most useful and wholesome
eavenng agent known. It contains no lime alum phos
phae other pury leaves alkaline or other residuum
in the food andi always ensures pure light and sweet
bread biscuit and eake that is perfectly digestbe
wholesome whether hot cold fresh stale It's eav-
enng powers has been determined the highest whenever
tested by official authority and all chemists and writer's
on food hggene commend it for its sterling qualities
Prof. r. A, Mott, who has examined the various
baking powders for the u S. Government, says:
The Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly the purest
and most reliable baking powder offered the public
oh A. MOTT, MD, PHD"
Late Q. S. Government Chemist
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-23
KAISER WILLIAMS PEACE TALK

TIE anniversary Of the German En-
peror's ninetieth birthday Is an occasion
so notable that everything he says reIat-
ing TO public matters is invested with
Significance. He is very old man, whose
life has been stormy and rarely event
full, and the scenes in which he has been
the chief actor have affected the veal and
woe of millions of people. His career
cannot be otherwise than nearly ended,
and it is altogether natural that as he an
ticipates the inevitable he should desire
to depart in peace. 1t must have been
that ne thus felt when he said few days
sgo to the French general, Marquis
d'Abzsc, then on visit to Berlin, who
called to psy his respects to the aged
sovereign: "Tell your compatriots that